rat-tail

British  

noun

1. another name for grenadier

2. 1. a horse's tail that has no hairs

   2. a horse having such a tail

3. a style of spoon in which the line of the handle is prolonged in a tapering moulding along the back of the bowl

4. a kind of woodworking or metalworking file

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Example Sentences

The first boy I love has a rat-tail.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2024

So Rust and Marty achieve some kind of middle-aged detente–Rust with his rat-tail stache and haunted eyes, Marty with his gut hanging over his golf pants.

From Time • Mar. 3, 2014

He favored "Java rat-tail cigars, a contriving of Pain's fireworks dimensions which burned with a clear blue flame like a fuse and possessed an aroma comparable to that of Cambridgeport city dump."

From Time Magazine Archive

If you have ever bickered with an antique dealer for a genuine rat-tail spoon or a Jacobean chair that was made in Newark, you will enjoy this hilarious take-off on antiquing and antiquers.

From Time Magazine Archive

I once knew a woman with no more music in her soul than a rat-tail file, who spent three laborious years learning to play the piano, then closed the instrument and never touched it again.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper